7 common SEO mistakes you’ve been making since 1995 As an industry, SEO has been around since 1995, born during the early days of Yahoo. It really began to… Read More
Anatomy of a news story: How Bing and Google performed when Steve Jobs resigned A new study out today from Seattle-based Optify attempts to get behind the scenes on how Bing and Google operate… Read More
Dan Savage’s ‘Spreading Santorum’ Web spoof loses top spot on Google Seattle sex columnist Dan Savage’s cruel, yet brilliant Web joke on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum appears to have run… Read More
Mundie: Microsoft positioned to eliminate the ‘cacophony’ of modern computing At a small event in Redmond this morning, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, is providing an update on… Read More
Buuteeq checks in with $2 million in funding to expand hotel marketing platform Buuteeq has reeled in an addition $2 million in capital from a long list of angel investors in Seattle and… Read More
What backlash? Google extends lead over Microsoft, Yahoo Google’s share of the U.S. search market climbed to its highest point in more than a year in January, surpassing… Read More
Ask.com hopes to find the right answer in latest ad campaign Here’s a key question for Ask.com: Can it find a way to compete against the likes of Google and Microsoft’s… Read More
Poll: Pissed or pleased about Google’s privacy changes? The privacy changes announced by Google this week highlight the classic dilemma of the digital age: Are you willing to… Read More
Wall Street punishes Google after topping $10 billion in revenue and adding 1,100 employees during Q4 Shares of Google fell nearly 10 percent in after hours trading today, despite the company posting record revenue of $10.5… Read More
Walk Score propels forward with $2 million, promises commutes that ‘don’t suck’ As gas prices soar and commute times lengthen, Walk Score CEO Josh Herst thinks Americans are going to ditch their cars in… Read More
Yahoo acquisition targets may include TripAdvisor, WebMD, InfoSpace and others Yahoo has been discussed as possible acquisition bait for some of the bigger media and technology companies on the planet.… Read More
Yahoo picks PayPal president Scott Thompson as new CEO Well, at the end of the day and after weeks of speculation, Yahoo didn’t go with a former Microsoft or… Read More
Is Google playing unfair in online travel? One of the big fears over Google’s purchase earlier this year of ITA Software was that the search giant would… Read More
Former Expedia execs unveil Fitropolis, a guide for gym rats Maybe it’s because of the growing obesity problem in the U.S. Or, perhaps, cubicle-bound techies just want to spend their… Read More
Tango Card rings up $1 million, partners with Bing Tango Card, the Seattle gift card operator, has raised an additional $1 million in equity and debt financing led by… Read More
Super stealthy Wavii says a bit more: Making Facebook out of Google A few weeks ago, I wondered what was going on at Wavii, a high-profile Seattle startup that had been operating… Read More
Microsoft vet Ken Moss lands at eBay, plans to grow Seattle office Ken Moss, who spent 20 years at Microsoft before going on to co-found the Seattle startup CrowdEye, has landed a… Read More
Microsoft gobbles up VideoSurf, a video search startup backed by Al Gore Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, ever since shelling out $8.5 billion for Skype.… Read More
Bing regains a little ground in search war with Google Google still remains the undisputed leader in Internet search, commanding some 65 percent of all search queries in the U.S.… Read More
Seattle search startup picks Massachusetts for new HQ Relevant Data Corp., a Seattle search startup, said that it has established a new headquarters in Danvers, Massachusetts and picked… Read More
Meet Wavii: The world’s longest-running stealth startup? Over the course of the past few weeks, a couple people in the Seattle startup community have independently asked me… Read More
Google boosts lead in search, now accounts for 66 percent of queries Microsoft is still trying to carve off market share from Google in search. But, at least during the month of… Read More
Hiring boom continues at Google as shares soar on profit and revenue increases Google engineer Steve Yegge may think some things are messed up at Google. But the search giant continues to deliver,… Read More
Google holds steady with 65 percent of U.S. search queries Google continues to hold a dominant lead in the Internet search business, with two reports out this week highlighting the… Read More
Looking to take on Quora, Avvo rebrands as a Q&A site When former Expedia executive Mark Britton founded Avvo in 2007, the goal was to create an online directory and ranking… Read More
Zillow delivers real estate search listings to Curbed Zillow has built one of the most popular online real estate sites, attracting some 25 million unique visitors per month.… Read More
Bing continues to chip away at Google’s dominance in search Google is still the dominant player when it comes to Internet search queries, but Microsoft’s Bing continues to gain share… Read More
Google gobbles up Zagat Google’s hunger for acquisitions continues, with news today that the search giant has gobbled up 32-year-old restaurant review company Zagat… Read More
Google’s bigger game: The subplot behind the Motorola acquisition “Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better… Read More
Inspired by daughter’s illness, Medify CEO sets out to transform health info discovery Some startup companies are born out of complete necessity. Take, for instance, the situation facing Derek Streat who learned in… Read More
